Bethany

I tap the little heart on every post that I see announcing a vaccination, and I give a little cheer. Huzzah! Vaccinations seem like an act of resistance now.

There's no good reason to repost famous people saying ignorant shit. It just amplifies the ignorance.

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

100 years from now someone will write a book about how we mowed down forests for datacenters while the world was burning. It won't be complementary.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Photo from Reddit. White nationalists just outside the BC Legislature this morning after a BC Cons supermajority. This group is Loyalist Pioneers, a white nationalist organization virtually identical to Second Sons. They've been active around Victoria for about a year & a half.

One Chart That Explains The 2026 B.C. Election

Record low NDP voter turnout caused this. 275,000 fewer NDP votes. Congratulations to the #BCGreens the only party to actually gain votes. I never want to hear about "strategic voting" again. The NDP couldn't even be bothered to vote "strategically" for their own party. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Turnout is shockingly low with 85% of ballot boxes in. We might not crack 50%, and are miles away from the 58% turnout in 2024.

A majority of British Columbians just announced they are: -Climate Change Deniers -Transphobes -Racists -Genocide Deniers and I'm sorry but I am no longer proud to call this province home. We have a serious problem. I do not feel safe in this province anymore. This is a very dark moment.

Somebody should have told Eby that he can resign without calling an election.

Polls have closed in B.C.'s provincial election. Elections BC says votes cast in advance will be electronically scanned, so there may be a batch of early results. Votes cast today, however, will be hand counted. We're expecting those results to start to roll in around 9 p.m.

The rain is not heavy, but I feel so much better now it is here. Said like a true Wet Coaster!

Lots of wankers complaining about waiting in line to vote. Why are you not just grateful you can vote at all? And why didn’t you use a mail in ballot?

Why is the word violence used when a protester in France smashes a window, but not used when French police assault protesters? Is it somehow no longer violence if the action is committed by an employee of the state?

Alberta is restricting when the Treaty 6 and Métis Nation flags are flown at schools to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Pride flags will NEVER be allowed to fly. But you can fly the Vatican City flag. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Half. Half of all Parks Canada staff. Market Carney is gutting our public services, and gutting is putting it mildly. Slashes like this can only precede privatization like BC did with our parks system, putting in a middle man extracting profit from government finding for literally no good reason.

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

You’re gonna think you might know where this is going and then about halfway through you’ll learn you were Wrong

A more than 40% risk reduction “would send many researchers over the Moon”. This personalised mRNA vaccine reduced the risk of skin cancer returning or the recipient dying by 42% go.nature.com/4BCB7k6

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Cities should think twice about letting tech companies test driverless cars on their streets. And commentators need to stop treating the arrival as inevitable. Since I wrote this post earlier this year, the troubling incidents have continued to accumulate: www.highspeed.blog/waymo-trouble/

This looks like a really cool service for people who want to hire artists who don't use AI. Check it out! hirehumanartists.com

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…

A betrayal of veterans. A betrayal of Buy Canadian. All for less than 1%. The Liberals gave a nearly $12M CRA contract to a U.S.-owned firm with reported ICE ties instead of the Canadian Commissionaires. I challenged this hypocrisy in Parliament. Our veterans deserve better. Canadians deserve better

🚨 URGENT: Canadian MPs have a chance to fix Bill C-39 before it becomes law. Bill C-39 would make it easier for the government to interfere in and shut down legal strikes, putting workers' rights in danger. Send a message now to protect our right to strike Canada! #CdnPoli #CanPoli

Good thing we're going all in on AI while conservative and liberals shit their diapers that a national postal service doesn't make a huge profit.

It should be illegal for Israel’s top arms producer to purchase a Canadian company. Elbit Systems is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. Cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, enact sanctions and a two-way arms embargo now. www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...

I’d like for my tiny #haiku #zines to go wherever they are welcome. Into other capsule machines, candy dishes, little free #libraries, or whatever creative vessels people can dream up. So print them out for free. I'll also mail you an envelope full anywhere in the world. http://katherinemont...

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Heads up! This is a thread - more like a library/compendium - of my columns, speeches & podcasts about Alberta's referendum questions. I thought it might be useful if I gathered it all in one place, organized by time and topic. #Alberta #notothenine #abpoli #cdnpoli

All of The Tyee’s civic election coverage, in Vancouver and across B.C., all in one place. We hope these stories help inform your voting decisions. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

Doug Ford’s war on bike lanes isn’t about traffic—it’s part of a global right-wing backlash to vilify urban residents and defend fossil fuel interests. @breachmedia.ca dove into the politics of cycling, and debunked some myths along the way www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoCz...

NEW: Mark Carney’s government lobbied Ecuadorian officials to ‘urgently’ speed up approvals for Canadian mining projects last year. The push came after Ecuador’s right-wing government cracked down on Indigenous protesters opposed to Canadian mines. www.readthemaple.com/liberals-pus...

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

It turns out that the best way to avoid being killed by drivers is to be protected by infrastructure.

This shirt is amazing and can be bought here: www.creativebyrovelo.com/product-page... (there are copycats on amazon and teepublic, etc., but this is the original artist)

NEW: Naloxone kits, medications, memorials, board games all end up in the trash, unhoused people and advocates say. Read Part 2 of our series on bylaw enforcement and unhoused residents' possessions in Victoria. www.defactomedia.ca/unhoused-peo...

A new documentary on the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe airs tonight on PBS. I interviewed the lead archaeologist, Shadreck Chirikure, and if you click through, you can watch an exclusive clip showing the team's discovery of Longquan celadon from eastern China. 🧪🏺

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.

Absolute scenes from Toronto, where a critical mass of lovely human beings on bikes has seen off the trucks sent (by the culture-warring Premier Doug Ford) to rip out the bike lanes... ...while chanting "get home safe" to the workers 🥹 Inspirational, iconic, great work @cycletoronto.bsky.social!

This will generate exactly no press from either major political party as another Canadian brand gets acquired by US interests and sends their profits south of the border.

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Divers free a whale shark from rope that enwrapped it for years: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

It’s actually happening. Ford is ripping these bike lanes out Tuesday. Be there if you can.